bangaloREsident@IIHS Bettina Lockemann has spent the last few weeks negotiating the traffic in Bangalore - and has survived!
She shares her experience and expertise at a Workshop this weekend at IIHS (Indian Institute for Human Settlements).
This workshop will discuss questions on how our experience of the city can be reflected in photographs. With a focus on mobility issues, learners will discover perspectives of the pedestrian, cyclist, passenger in an auto or bus, etc. The aim is to actively perceive our environment and transfer this perception into a visual image.
The workshop will start with a short reading and a discussion on topics related to the city and mobility. After that learners will go out on the streets and individually explore the city with the camera, before coming back to discuss their experiences and the pictures taken.
Participants are requested to carry a camera or camera phone and be prepared to upload photos on a computer.
In her works, Bettina Lockemann deals mainly with urban situations. She looks for her topics in spaces of urban agglomeration and realises them with photography and video. Born and raised in Berlin, she studied photography and media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and took a Ph.D in art history at Stuttgart State Academy of Visual Arts. Currently she is working as freelance artist and art historian after teaching for 15 years at various art schools and universities in Germany and Switzerland, most recently as Professor of Practice and Theory of Photography at Braunschweig University of Art
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